Semi OT: Are there any good books for young children that teach environmental lessons? Not in the Lorax style, exactly. Water quality/conservation is one thing I'd like to see, but I'm also interested in books that teach about global warming in a way that's semi-understandable to a small child.

As soon as I saw "a suburb of Milwaukee" below the picture at the beginning of the article I understood completely. A lot of cities have shitty suburbs, but Milwaukee is really and truly special as far as that goes.

It has some nice things going for it, as a city, but it really is surrounded by deeply appalling people, as in, Scott Walker voter level appalling.

The writing style in 32's link is excruciating, but he's right about the disquiet. It's a point well taken. It's going to depress me in a way I can't really describe to keep watching the Pacific ocean go to shit from the coasts.